CSR 2010: Business, as usual
The CSR’s savagery is the latest chapter in a narrative first articulated by Labour: the neoliberal university. Andrew Blake writes
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CSR 2010: What the sector thinks
Higher education funding“It is hard to see the rationale behind slashing college and university budgets when they generate massive economic growth for the country and when the alternative is more...
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Fears made flesh: only STEM teaching grants spared CSR scythe
Government funding for higher education is to be cut by 40 per cent over four years, suggesting that public funding for teaching in the arts, humanities and social sciences may come to an end.
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GuildHE urges reflection before implementing Browne Review and cuts
The government has been warned of the potential for disastrous consequences if it does not pause for thought before embracing Lord Browne’s proposals for reform of higher education while implementing...
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Tara Brabazon: The end of ‘shhhhh’ in the library
In a time of shrinking funding, librarians’ savvy use of time- and space-shifting podcasts can aid diverse groups of students and scholars and highlight valuable resources, argues Tara Brabazon
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Oxford reveals the method in the madness of its interview questions
What is “normal” for humans? Why do a cat’s eyes appear to glow in the dark?
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Inside Higher Ed: More legal risk for Canada’s universities
By Doug Lederman, for Inside Higher Ed
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The ancient students of Greece…and we are not talking Plato
Ten years of study with no sign of a degree points to an academy in crisis. Matthew Reisz reports
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The sum of our ‘worst fears’: UUK chief says prepare for cuts of £4.2bn
The president of Universities UK has told vice-chancellors to expect cuts of £4.2 billion in the government’s spending review – and warned that a huge funding gap is a “terrible danger”.
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Poor students to benefit from Clegg’s £7bn ‘fairness premium’
Students from poor backgrounds will receive help to attend university as part of a wider £7 billion “fairness premium” announced today by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister.
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth
Hester Vaizey hails a vivid portrayal of the queens who thwarted the constraints on their sex
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The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps
A chilling look at our possible destiny indicates the limits of human adaptability, says Barry Brook
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Few moments in 20th-century American popular music have been quite so maligned as the disco years. They are inevitably characterised as a tasteless age defined by testosterone-charged men strutting...
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The Canon: How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939 by Donald Cameron Watt
My relationship with How War Came began in 1989. I was a wide-eyed history postgraduate at the University of Toronto. I enrolled in a course on the causes of the Second World War and our tutor told...
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Derrida: Profanations
Robert Eaglestone applauds an important but rather obscure interpretation of Derrida's work